Poker star Phil Ivey sues Crockfords Casino

A star poker player has defended a practice he used to win millions of pounds from a London casino after it refused to pay out the money. Crockfords casino accuses Phil Ivey of cheating by using the "edge-sorting technique" in card game punto banco. Mr Ivey, considered one of the best poker players in the world, is suing the Mayfair casino for £7.7m, saying the technique is lawful. BBC; Oct 3. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29476942

To explain the news in the previous post [1] we had used the chart for the April 29, 2014 solar eclipse at London. The same chart and its progression will explain very elegantly the news above also from London and on the same date.

The eclipse [9ta] was conjunct Hamal, alpha Aries, Schedar, alpha Cassiopeiae and gamma Cetus.  We had seen earlier that the energy in these stars of the Ram, fixed-earth Taurus and Cetus combine to create an “aggressive fixity”. Tropical Taurus is also about money matters. In addition the eclipse [9ta] was conjunct the asteroids Juno [2ta] and Toro [10ta].

Juno: question of rights and fairness/compromise; enforcement of fairness in relationships

Toro: Bullying; intimidation; muscle flexing-psychologically or physically; challenging others.

The eclipse throws a quincunx aspect to the Mars leg of the Grand Cross which contains the Mars-Pluto square with Mars in the 5^th and Pluto in the 8^th house.

In her book “The Houses, Temples of the Sky”, Deborah Houlding gives us the following areas of rulership for the 5^th and 8^th houses:

Fifth House

All forms of gambling and speculation (and therefore by association gamblers and casinos). http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h5.html

Eighth House

Financial obligations,  losses, money owed to others.

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h8.html

In addition we also have a Mars-Jupiter square:

Mars square or opposition to Jupiter is the signature of the gambler.

http://www.rosicrucian.com/mos/moseng05.htm

Progressing the chart to October 3, brings the Grand Cross to the angles with Mars on the progressed Ascendant triggering the event reported in the news.

[1] Britain Threatens to Ignore European Court of Human Rights Rulings